The 50 years of research carried out by the doctor Alfred A. Tomatis, have culminated in the development of a discipline called "Audio-Psycho-Phonology".
This combines the main fields of research and experimentation to which it was dedicated, relating the ear to perception, communication and listening.
Tomatis (specialist doctor in ear, nose and throat) considered that the ear has many more functions than have normally been assigned. In addition to serving to hear or maintain balance, the auditory sense increases the electrical potential of the brain. It is that increased potential in what is intended to work with your method.
The method is based on ear re-education to enhance learning and global development of people. By developing the perception of the ear, stimulated by certain sounds, learning and communication can be stimulated, especially in infants and young children, as well as improvements in motor skills and balance problems.
But what is the Tomatis method? It is a music therapy based on listening, filtered at certain high frequencies, Mozart compositions, Gregorian chants and the mother's voice as heard from the uterus.
That is, sounds that are relaxing and balancing. By this method we want to avoid a relaxation of the muscles of the middle ear that some babies or children can develop unconsciously, for example by blocking certain sound stimuli by rejection.
It is not about creating small geniuses, and if I consider this method interesting, which can also be applied to improve learning problems, it is because the enormous capacity of babies to learn is that they can receive a "push" thanks to the known benefits of music.
The method can be used for many purposes, but now we are interested in what train the ears of babies and children to benefit from the sounds heard in their integral development as people.
The little ones put on headphones that reproduce the mentioned sounds, based on those that Tomatis considered to be natural in the development of listening, from the fetal period to the adult.
The benefits that this method brings to pregnant women, since it relaxes them and provides them with balance, calming possible anxieties, and incidentally stimulates the fetus when he already perceives the sounds.
Ourselves we can reproduce certain characteristics of the method: listening to Mozart and talking to the fetus at the same time. When the baby is born, the tone of our voice and classical music is still a balm for the little ones. When they begin to speak, it is good that they sing the songs or repeat our words.
Based on the fact that there are scientific studies have shown that Mozart's music has an influence on the behavior of babies, providing them with greater intellectual and creative development, just as the mother's voice or the memory of intrauterine life calms them It seems to me that it is a method that can effectively bring certain benefits.
Some psychologists, pedagogues, speech therapists and doctors are interested in this method and recommend it. There are also schools that apply Tomatis to improve children's academic performance. From this link you can consult the therapists who apply the method in Spain.
Between the benefits of these sounds (for children and adults) there is an improvement in mood, greater resistance to fatigue, improvements in memory capacity, concentration and creativity, a feeling of calm (intellectual and physical) ... Yes, I repeat that Let's not expect to "create" little geniuses.
Each baby has its own potential and what we can do the elderly is to open as many doors as possible so that it expands and develops all capacities as widely as possible. Teach to listen It is certainly an important step, and we must do it through all means.
The best thing for the little ones is that we stimulate them through music, play, language, caresses, colors ... of a close, intimate and overturned treatment in their physical, intellectual and emotional growth. We know that leaving your development in the hands of cartoons or a specific method makes no sense.
